Rabbi Stacy Offner is the Vice President of the Union for Reform Judaism.  She began her position on August 1, 2008, following nearly 25 years in Minneapolis, MN as a congregational rabbi. Rabbi Offner was the first woman rabbi in the North Star State and is now the founding rabbi emeritus of Shir Tikvah Congregation in Minneapolis.   

Rabbi Offner has served as an adjunct professor of Jewish ethics at Hamline University, as a member of the ethics committee of Children's Hospital and as chair of the Socially Responsible Investing Committee of the Reform Pension Board. She is a past president of the Midwest Association of Reform Rabbis, and was the first rabbi in Minnesota history to serve as the officially elected chaplain of the Minnesota State Senate.